We Buddhists eat completely vegetarian food; This was advocated by Sakyamuni Buddha three thousand years ago. After all, modern people are smarter than before and know that vegetarianism is good. In the medical field, for example, a Swiss doctor of medicine wrote a book called "Why Vegetarianism". From the medical point of view, he emphasized that if people are vegetarian for a long time, there will be no serious illness; It's easy to get well even if you have a serious illness. Not only is it easy to get well, but the body also recovers quickly.

There is a sanatorium in Taipei that advocates vegetarianism. Not only all patients in this sanatorium are vegetarian, but even doctors and nurses are vegetarian! There is a Hong Kong 'an Hospital in Hong Kong, which is a Christian-run institution as well as a sanatorium in Taipei. Christians have always believed that flesh and blood was originally created by God and should be given to people. How can they advocate vegetarianism?

I once visited patients in Hong Kong 'an Hospital, and when I met a doctor in the hospital, I asked about it. The doctor told me, "We are vegetarian not because of our religious beliefs, but from a medical point of view. In fact, many scientists have already studied that when animals are killed on their deathbed, they have great anger and terror; Blood will secrete toxins, and humans will be poisoned if they eat it. As usual, as long as we are angry, blood will contain a toxin. This statement is recorded in ancient medical books.

Master Dade Printing of Pure Land Sect often advocates one thing; Mother can't get angry when breastfeeding; Elephants get angry when they quarrel. At this time, they must not feed, or the baby will die even if it is eaten. This is called "poisonous milk kills the baby". Now few people publicize this matter, and the founder of Yinguang pays great attention to it. He also explained: If the breast-feeding mother has an atmosphere, she must squeeze out the milk. It is best to rest for a day and wait until her mood is stable and her blood is normal before breastfeeding.

2. Vegetarian food is nutritious and hygienic.

Some people think that vegetarianism is not nutritious enough. If it was forty or fifty years ago, it might be reasonable to say that vegetarianism is not nutritious enough. At that time, even eating meat was not nutritious enough, and even food was not enough! Modern people have too much nutrition, so many civilized diseases are mostly caused by overnutrition.

Many athletes are vegetarians, because vegetarianism is not only nutritious, but also healthy and has stamina. Vegetarian food is indeed nutritious and the cleanest, which is recognized and advocated by nutritionists, scientists and medical scientists.

These are all modern knowledge. How can modern people still have outdated ideas of being vegetarian and not having enough nutrition? What do you think cows and horses eat? They are all eating grass! Look at them, they are so strong and strong. Where is vegetarian food without nutrition? Vegetarian food is really nutritious, and it has no toxin of blood and meat!

3. There is no end to the pain of killing.

Nowadays, many people in society are vegetarian, which is for the sake of health; Our disciples who study Buddhism are vegetarians, mainly to cultivate compassion. Although they are also vegetarians, their intentions are different; Different intentions, of course, have different feelings. .

You know, when animals are slaughtered, they always want revenge because of extreme pain and resentment. Look at the word "meat",

Look from the glyph, there are two people, these two "people" are not side by side, but one is up and down; It means that when you ride on his head, he lets you kill him; But as soon as he turns over, he will eat you again. This is what the Shurangama Sutra says: "A man dies as a sheep, and a sheep dies as a man. "That is," man eats man "! The six paths of reincarnation are spinning up and down like this.

There is an example to be wary of: in the past, there was a Luohan who passed the six-pass certificate, went out to beg for food, passed by a family, and was having a wedding ceremony to marry the bride. Lohan, who has a good eye and a good destiny, can see the true image of The six great divisions in the wheel of karma clearly. When he saw these people eating wedding banquets, he said four words with emotion: "It's a pity that life is bitter, and children and grandchildren marry grandmothers; Sit on the cattle and sheep seats and cook in the pot of six parents. "

How to say these four sentences? It's a pity that life is upside down. It's really too bitter. It turns out that the bride's former life is the groom's grandmother; Grandmother was reincarnated as a young lady because she loved her grandson, so she was married to her grandson because of her emotion. Do you think it's upside down? Those who come to congratulate the guests were all eaten cattle, sheep and other animals in their previous lives; The meat cooked in the pot and prepared for the guests is the six relatives and relatives who ate those cattle and sheep before. Samsara is such a bitter, living fact, not fake at all!

4. The injustice of the sword comes from the mouth.

Usually people die and are buried in graves, and people who eat meat eat big fish and meat in their bellies. Isn't that a grave for animals? Do you think it's dirty to bury animals in your stomach? Is the health unsanitary? There are still people who eat snakes and cats ........................................................................................................................................................................ As soon as animals eat into their stomachs, ghosts follow them into their stomachs; Are you afraid of getting even with you and killing you one day?

Many converted disciples often come to master to complain. I will tell the root of these sufferings now. I hope that everyone will review themselves, repent well, repair their blessings, and recruit by others. There is no blame for everything, especially for others. If a person has a disease that can't even see Chinese and western medicine well, it is called "karma disease", and most of these "karma diseases" are eaten from the mouth. But how to repent and cultivate happiness? At the very least, you should be vegetarian and Buddhist. Because just this mouth, I don't know how many evils I have created and how many grievances I have made.

Look! The slaughterhouse in Taipei alone doesn't know how to kill hundreds of cows, pigs, fish and thousands of chickens and ducks in one day. Who are these all killed for? Aren't they all killed for the people who eat? Who will receive these results? Who killed you? You know! If you don't eat, no one will buy the sentient beings killed today. If you ask him to kill tomorrow, he won't kill them. Because you want to eat, he kills, everyone creates evil for each other, and the karma is rewarded! We Buddha disciples should be conscious in this place!

Everyone lives in the mountains and is a vegetarian these days, so you won't be involved in killing karma in Taiwan Province these days; If this kills karma and leads to war in the future, even an atomic bomb will not die on your head. Why? How can you feel the consequences without creating evil causes? In the past, people often survived bullets. What's the truth? He doesn't have this evil karma!

The ancients said: "for thousands of years, the grievances in the bowl are as deep as the sea and it is difficult to settle;" If you want to know about the sword robbery in the world, but listen to the midnight sound of the butcher door. "Why is there a sword robbery in the world? Most of them are eaten from the population. One man is killed, and one man is killed; The same is true for a family and even a country. Buddhism talks about cause and effect, whether you believe it or not, the truth is indeed the case!

Based on compassion, Buddhists usually attach great importance to release; In fact, vegetarianism is the best release. As long as you are vegetarian, you can put a hundred lives; If a person is not a vegetarian, he will eat fish today and meat tomorrow and accumulate it. I don't know how many lives he has eaten in his life! We usually only know tiger poison and snake venom. How many people did the tiger kill and how many people did the poisonous snake kill? To be honest, people who are not vegetarian are many times more poisonous than tigers and poisonous snakes! Don't be a poisonous snake in people and a poisonous tiger in people!

If you still want to eat meat, I'm telling you: now you eat well, so don't complain when it's time to pay your debts. When you know that you have to pay your debts when you kill, you will be rewarded with short life and ill health. In the future, you will fall into hell in three ways. I advise you to abstain from killing vegetarians and avoid suffering!

5. Convenient vegetarian side dishes

Have you been vegetarian after listening to this? If you think it's inconvenient to be a vegetarian, you're making excuses yourself. If it's really inconvenient, just eat a "convenient vegetarian". What is a "convenient element"? This does not mean that it is convenient for you to eat meat, but that you can eat quietly at home and it is convenient to go out. For example, when going to a relative's house for dinner, the host cooks vegetarian dishes in a meat pot; Even if there is no vegetarian food to eat, it is more convenient to eat, and it is also ok to eat meat-side dishes.

When Master Huineng, the sixth ancestor, is with hunters, he just eats meat and vegetables. Even if the table is full of meat and there is no food to eat, will a meal without food be less nutritious? If you really have compassion, how can you bear to bite those meats?

Others think that it seems impolite and sorry for others if the host treats you and doesn't eat any meat. Is that a reason? I remember that not long ago, we went to Yuli Town, Hualien for a meeting. The mayor was a woman and she was a vegetarian. She told me: There are more than 300 towns in the east, among which two mayors eat vegetarian food. They can all be vegetarians when they socialize in politics. What's not convenient for everyone to be vegetarian?

I have a female converted disciple in Hong Kong who is also a vegetarian. Her husband is a big entrepreneur and often has all kinds of entertainment; Although she is a vegetarian herself, she still socializes with her husband. Wherever she goes, she takes bread and pickles; At dinner, she eats these breads and pickles. Someone asked her, "Why are you a vegetarian? Seeing that the other person's foundation was not suitable for speaking, she said, "I have a bad stomach, and the doctor told me not to eat meat." "A word will be clean. Seeing that the other person has good roots to explain, tell people a truth about vegetarianism.

There are too many benefits of vegetarianism. As Buddhists, we should be vegetarian for good health. From the standpoint of moral causality, we should be a vegetarian unconditionally and without bargaining.

6. Be compassionate and skillful in cooking vegetarian food

Sometimes, family members don't like vegetarianism. As a member of the family, it is necessary to cultivate bodhicitta to educate their families so that they don't create bad karma. This must be broken through, especially housewives, who must learn to cook good vegetarian dishes. Don't just cook meat dishes, not vegetarian dishes. Because you cooked vegetarian dishes tasteless, your family certainly thought vegetarian dishes were not delicious. In fact, it's not that vegetarian dishes are not delicious, but that you can't season them; If the meat dishes are not well adjusted, they will be tasteless.

In the future, we should change our ideas, study hard, and make vegetarian food more delicious than meat dishes. Of course, family members like it. Burning meat dishes tasteless, or casually seasoning them and cooking them half-baked, naturally makes family members dislike them. In fact, as long as the family eats well and tastes good, how can they care about nutrition? When it comes to nutrition, vegetarian food has the highest nutritional value. Learning Buddhism requires wisdom, compassion, and skillful and convenient understanding.

People's concept is very important. As long as he knows the benefits of vegetarianism, he will naturally become a vegetarian, so he can always mention the benefits of vegetarianism at home. In addition, prepare some vegetarian books and put them at home for your husband and children to read; They saw it and knew, "Oh! So vegetarian is so good! "Be careful and find ways to spend time with your family so that everyone can be kind with one heart.

If your family has a heavy karma, you still like to eat meat, which forces you to have no choice; Then, in this harsh environment, you should cut a knife and say a word of Amitabha when cutting meat and burning meat with compassion; Stir-fry, recite amitabha, and go back to them and live in the west. This is a helpless way.

7. If you quit your mouth and recite Buddha, you will be born in the west.

I always hope that all Buddhists can abstain from vegetarianism. At least, believers who came to Lingyan Mountain to fight the Seven Buddhists should abstain from vegetarianism after returning home. Don't eat quietly in these seven days, and then go back and swallow big fish and meat. I went back here with the Buddha's light, but as soon as I ate the meat, the Buddha in my heart was stinky and bloody! Everyone should be kind-hearted, offer incense to the Buddha with heart, and don't smoke the Buddha with smelly things.

The Buddha is merciful, treating all sentient beings as parents and children. You eat the flesh of all sentient beings in your stomach as if you had killed his parents and children. How sad it was for the merciful Buddha to see this killing!

Ok! I only hope that everyone can be vegetarian and read the compassionate Buddha with a quiet mouth, so that the merits of reading Buddha will be great. Otherwise, while you are chanting Buddha, you are so evil at the same time; There is no compassion at all. Your heart of chanting Buddha is not corresponding to Buddha's heart at all! Is there merit in chanting Buddha like this? Of course, there are all kinds of good roots first! But when will it pay off? Of course, it will be slow, because there are still bad karma, and how can we feel real happiness without bad karma? If you want to be happy earlier and not suffer from bitter fruit, you should be a perfect good person and not create bad karma, and the consequences in the future will of course be full and happy! Otherwise, there is still bitterness in music; It's like a rich person, but unfortunately suffering from illness, which is equivalent to being "rich and poor"!

The Buddha told us: "A man who eats meat cuts off the seeds of great compassion. Compassion is the seed of Buddha. How can a Buddhist become a Buddha when he wants to become a Buddha while eating meat and ruining the seed of compassion? The so-called "chanting Buddha and keeping precepts, keeping precepts and chanting Buddha, ten thousand people practice ten thousand people." If you want to live in the west without obstacles, you must be vegetarian and read Buddha; Being a vegetarian means holding the "no killing" precept, and the crime of killing is the most serious! If you just recite the Buddha and don't follow the precepts and be a vegetarian, then if there are obstacles and you can't have the West, don't complain: "I want to have the West, why didn't Amitabha come to take over?" "It's not that Amitabha didn't come to take the lead, it's that at the end of his life, your karma and friends came to find you, so that you couldn't go. This is karma! All the results are rewarded by all the people, so the cause is the result, and the causal decision is so!

I hope everyone can stop killing and release, be a vegetarian and read Buddha, read Amitabha with compassion, and decide to live with the West in the future!